Re: [boost] [optional] Making optional more debugger friendly

From: Jeffrey Faust (jefffaust_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-22 23:32:19

Mathias Gaunard wrote:

> Jeffrey Faust wrote:
>
>> For the same reason I'd like to see values of ints or doubles.  It's not
>> because I don't trust boost::optional, but because I simply want to see
>> the value.
>
> In that case, isn't what needs to be improved your debugger rather than
> boost::optional?
>

By the time the value has been stored in boost::optional, it has been  
stripped of all type information (as far as I can see).  VS8 is actually  
pretty good at looking at values, and is the best debugger I've seen,  
although my experience it admittedly limited.  I don't know if I'd expect  
a debugger to make sense of the aligned_memory construct used in  
boost::optional.

Jeff Faust